OUR VIEW - AN ENDORSEMENT: Elect Mitt Romney to put America on track

BARACK Obama was elected in 2008 as a fresh figure who offered voters a seductive message of "hope and change" and a lofty, yet unclear, promise to "fundamentally transform America."

What he has delivered after four years is a damaged nation in need of a new president who can restore economic confidence and job growth. America needs a new president who can return the White House to America's founding principles of individual liberty and limited government.

Mitt Romney is our choice to be that new president to set America right again.

Romney would be the new president we need to unleash the economy and job growth by removing the clouds of uncertainty, over-regulation and taxation created by the current Administration.

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Romney would be the new president to heal the wounds that have been inflicted on relationships with our traditional allies abroad. A new president who won't apologize for America, but who will renew the world's respect for America.

Romney would be the new president needed to acknowledge the persistent danger of Islamist extremism and deal straightforwardly with it to keep us and our allies safe.

Most of all, Mitt Romney would be the new president America needs to pull the country back from its transformation to personal dependence on federal government at the cost of individual liberty, individual initiative and personal responsibility.

Mitt Romney would be the president we need to restore common sense in place of utopian visions of redistributing wealth through massive government giveaway programs.

Romney is a good man, and a good American. He is a man of integrity. His career has repeatedly demonstrated the executive leadership ability America needs.

Romney rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from debt and scandal and made it a profitable success. At his business, Bain Capital, he took failing companies and turned them around whenever possible with prudent business practices. As governor of Massachusetts, he started with a state in deficit and left office with a surplus.

Romney became successful and wealthy by virtue of putting his talents to work and being a capable businessman and leader. He also has shared his wealth and his time freely and generously for charitable causes.

As president, Romney has plans to cut the deficit, slow federal spending, trim the size of federal government and end Obamacare. He would reform taxes, end over-regulation, foster trade and domestic energy independence, and free up business to do business and create jobs that will put Americans back to work and back on their own two feet.

Romney and his brilliant running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, will repair the damage and excesses of the past four years and create a climate of business confidence that will set the economy free to roar again.

A Romney presidency will reflect the best of America's heritage. It will make America strong and give it a future of renewed optimism.